As data gains "currency" as a means to perpetrate fraud and other crimes, new controls over who can access information and how it can be used are likely to emerge, according to LexisNexis' chief privacy officer.

Banks are in a remarkable position from a competitive standpoint to dominate the EBPP market, but need to work hard on increasing customer acceptance, beginning with efforts to entice those already banking online.

Principia Partners increases its staff; Paul Zagnoni named chief operating officer at Corpedia Education; Linda A. Weber appointed senior vice president of products and technology at ImageSoft Technologies; Paul Pluschkell named executive vice president of Strategic Business Development at Hyperfeed Technologies; Mitch Hovendick appointed to the Board of Directors at Billserv.

Catalyst 2002 Customer Forum, a business meeting run by S1 Corp., will be held Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in Atlanta; The ASIS seminar, which addresses issues of crime and loss prevention, will be held Sept. 10-13 in Philadelphia; The First SunNetwork Conference and Pavilion, which will feature discussions on end-to-end solutions from Sun, will be held Sept. 18-20 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Costa Christodoulou appointed chief executive officer of City Networks; Wessel van der Scheer named managing director of the Asian Zone for Fimat Group; Fabio Micheli to become regional sales manager in Italy, Greece and France for TSYS; Gregory Coticchia named chief executive officer of LogicLibrary; Robert Lario appointed director of product development at iBank.

National Commerce Financial Corp. wanted more than the typical transaction-based solutions being offered on the market. To give its customers a more personalized experience, NCF decided it had to build its own system.

Some 3 million of Wells Fargo's retail customers, or nearly a third of its total customer base, are online. Its bill pay customer base increased 44 percent in 2001. And it recently signed off on two major online payments deals.

"As we move away from paper-based checks more and more, and with the Check Truncation Act that's pending, the opportunity to go to more straight-through processing in the various channels in banking becomes greater and greater."